You can grab your client's attention by entering into the conversation going on inside her head. Google can help you to accomplish this and get higher clicks as well, by skillful use of keywords in your ads. One of the premier rules of AdWords management is; capture the attention of more people by bidding on more keywords.



Nothing endears you to your customer like reading his own diary, showing that you know what it feels like to be him. Telling him exactly what his day was like today. And that's what it means to enter the conversation inside your customer's head. When you step right into his thoughts and talk to him the way he talks to other people and himself about things that are important to him, he'll listen to you.

The keywords people use come from those conversations in their minds that they are having. If your ad repeats to them the things that they are thinking, then you will spark their interests. By having keywords in the headline and in the body and the URL of your ad, you are using good strong advertising strategies.

If your keywords show up in more places you have a greater chance of receiving more clicks. Keywords in your headline, body and display URL are the key. So you can see how many times someone searching for "German" or "Learn German" will find their keyword in this ad:

Want to Learn German?

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www.MasterGermanFaster.com

If effective AdWords Management means speaking directly to what people are searching on and repeating it back at them, how do you go about finding out what people are searching on in the first place? Where do you go to get the good keywords, especially the keywords that are worth the most money?

The fastest site to begin your quest is to go to Overture's Keyword Selector Tool. This is a free service at http://inventory.overture.com. It makes available to you an instant overview of the value of each of your keywords and how they relate to each other.

458,579 learn german

103,157 german shepherd

85,210 german

22,970 german dictionary

16,990 german english dictionary

16,294 german translation

15,992 german shepherd dog

14,409 german translator

13,037 german shepherd puppy

11,646 english german dictionary

10,187 german to english

9,810 german to english translation

9,800 german short hair pointer

One look at this list and it's obvious where the traffic and money will be. It's also obvious that you've got keywords here that don't belong.

You haven't spent a penny yet and you already know what your major negative keywords are going to be. These are words you include in your list where you specifically do not want your ad to show when people type them in. You enter them into your keyword list with negatives in front of them. For example:

-dog

-puppy

-shepherd

-pointer

-dictionary

-translator

-translation

-hair

-etc.

Your ads won't show anytime people include these words in their search.

So how much will these keywords actually cost to bid on? To get your answer, head over to the Yahoo Resource Center, which you can find at www.overture.com, and click to see the "Bids Tool." When you enter "learn German" in the pop-up search box, Overture gives you a list of the prices advertisers are paying to promote their products on Yahoo sites. They start at $0.47 and bottom out at $0.05.

Of course, this is Overture, not Google. At the time of this writing, positions on Yahoo's search pages are determined by bids and bids only, whereas on Google you get preferential treatment for having an especially good click-through rate, and the competition, and the nature of the traffic, are different.

Not to worry though. This tool is only an initial indicator of what kind of business advertisers are getting from their clicks on Yahoo. This example says advertisers wouldn't pay more than forty-seven cents for a click for "learn German". This is an indicator. Contrast that with "home mortgage" where bids top off at $4 and you can see how lucrative, or not, "learn German" is.